An interesting blog post from one of our Arts Library Associates, here at the University of Glasgow and coordinated by my colleague. The Associate's project focussed on restoring a book from the collection of Adam Smith (of the institution's notable alumni). 😀 Fascinating reading, mainly because this is an area about which I know little.
Adam Smith Conservation project https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/adam-smith-conservation-project/ #AdamSmith #libraries #conservation #books #ScottishEnlightenment #Enlightenment
TFG went from being #Cicero to #Catiline over the span of only 4 years.
Even the founders educated by the #ScottishEnlightenment and protagonists of the #American Revolution would been incredulous he ate the whole wheel of cheese, they’d have been amazed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/11/03/donald-trump-the-cicero-of-2016/
The #ScottishEnlightenment has a rich legacy across global institutions and deserve to reap the benefit, at long last 🖖🏼
"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus"
It's #FrancisHutchesonDay
Francis Hutcheson, teacher in Dublin and lecturer in Glasgow University, "Father of the #ScottishEnlightenment " was born #OTD 1694 in Saintfield, Co. Down and died #OTD 1746 in Dublin.
A post on the Dublin Hutcheson knew.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/08/08/footsteps-of-hutcheson/
Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow lecture
Robert Burns & 18th-Century Thought
Wed 18 Jan, University of Glasgow
Prof Gerard Carruthers examines the debt owed to the #ScottishEnlightenment by Scotland’s national poet. Arguably, this intellectual hinterland in Burns remains under-appreciated amid a predominant framing of Burns as a ‘folk’ artist.
@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thCentury #philosophy #Enlightenment
I learned of the term #commonplace book reading Tom Ricks’ immensely educational book #FirstPrinciples.
As part of my #introduction, I’d like to continuing with my messy personal experimental process of #digital #pamphleteering, gathering shared data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to build a sense of #community across time and space. 🇺🇸#fediverse #federated #networks #republicanism #scottishenlightenment #history
UCD School of Philosophy
George Macgregor
Coach Pāṇini ®
Irish Philosophy
Assoc for Scottish Literature